In a blistering rebuke of what he called a “blatant lie,” Richard Tice, Deputy Leader of the U.K.’s Reform Party, has issued firsthand testimony challenging claims that Gaza is currently facing famine. Having just returned from the Israeli-Gaza border, Tice accused both the United Nations and the British government of ignoring facts on the ground while fueling what he described as antisemitic sentiment disguised as humanitarian concern.
In a piece titled, “On the Gaza front line, I find the famine is a blatant lie,” Tice, who has stepped up as one of the few British political voices willing to challenge the dominant Gaza famine narrative, spoke of his visit to the Kerem Shalom crossing — a dangerous checkpoint through which humanitarian aid flows into Gaza. What he saw there contradicts the headlines: “I found myself at an Israeli border crossing into Gaza. I stood among hundreds of pallets of fresh avocados, onions and bananas, along with more flour, sugar and tins than I had ever seen.”
This wasn’t some isolated warehouse. It was the frontline of a war zone, and yet, he reported, aid is moving.
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More damningly, Tice questioned why organizations like the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) have been so slow in distributing this aid, despite having the largest footprint in Gaza. According to Tice, these organizations are either failing outright or deliberately stonewalling. Some even refuse to cooperate with Israeli vetting procedures — refusals that, as Tice points out, delay the aid and empower Hamas to seize supplies for the black market, driving up prices and manufacturing artificial scarcity. In short, it’s not famine — it’s manipulation. “Why are we still funding the UN and other organisations that fail and lie?” he asked rhetorically.
Backing Tice’s claims is an explosive forensic report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a nonpartisan body that analyzed the data behind the UN’s August declaration of famine. The NCRI’s conclusion? The UN’s claim that famine was “currently occurring” in Gaza City was based on statistically manipulated models, cherry-picked data, and outright suppression of contradictory evidence. For example, the IPC — the UN’s famine classification arm — based its famine alarm on six data points modeled exponentially, even when a linear model fit just as well. Worse, an updated dataset of more than 15,000 children showing malnutrition at 13.5% — below the 15% famine threshold — was available before publication but ignored. In short, famine hadn’t been reached, and the UN knew it.
Even worse, the UN famine authority buried contradictory hunger surveys, selectively labeled regions to exaggerate suffering, and excluded Rafah — one of the most stable areas receiving U.S.-backed aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation — claiming it had been “depopulated,” despite including it in previous reports. The result? A distorted picture aimed at discrediting American-led humanitarian efforts in favor of the UN’s aging, politically compromised machinery.
Tice called it what it is: fraud. He warned that the real victims here are not just the misled Western public or taxpayers, but the Israeli civilians who continue to suffer from terrorist attacks and the honest Palestinians being manipulated by a terror-controlled regime and corrupt aid networks. He concluded that if the UN and its affiliates are willing to bury their own data to preserve a narrative, they must be held accountable.
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